Steele
and
Tomczak
| Current / Upcoming Video Photographic Installation Writing Bio CV Steele CV Tomczak |
Video Projects > Steele > The Damages, 1978
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| The Damages, 17:50, 1978, b/w, sound (2:30 excerpt) |
| "From 1974 to 1986 I worked at a shelter for women and children. Most of the women who came to this shelter had been victims of violence. In doing these two tapes, I began to draw directly on this experience, synthesizing many women's lives into single, composite characters. I created the character in these tapes, the eccentric Mrs. Pauly, in order to find out why some women 'go off the deep end' when confronted with social control." -L.S. The first tape in the Mrs. Pauly diptych shows her evolution from isolated weirdo to first-class witness. As her psychically damaged personality emerges, we see it as a product of skewed religious rituals and an aggrieved sense of being wronged. Steele & Tomczak's videos are represented by Vtape |
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